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Originally Posted by ExiE
If you are talking about http://forum.amiga.org/ your test is still flawed. Even after removing external css files, Amiga.org is still using inline styles, javascripts, is not valid, contains errors in the code... |
I removed the javascript and inline styles, and fixed trivial errors flagged by the HTML validator at
https://validator.w3.org. Netsurf still took 4.6+ seconds to load this basic HTML file on my PC.
However it turns out my other tests were a little unfair. I was running IBrowse in demo mode, which is limited to 2 simultaneous network connections. I obtained a keyfile (for evaluation purposes only!) to unlock its more advanced features, and
https://forum.amiga.org now loads completely in 87 seconds - down from 140 seconds in demo mode. The non-secure page
http://forums.amiga.org loads in just 34 seconds and is fully interactive in 8 seconds.
I also installed IBrowse 2.4 and Netsurf 3.8 on my A600 with Vampire 600 V2.5. Running on a saga 800x600 16 bit Workbench screen (Netsurf doesn't like 24 bit), IBrowse completely loaded
http://forums.amiga.org in 10 seconds, twice as fast as Netsurf. Scrolling in IBrowse was almost instantaneous, and general operation was very responsive. Netsurf's rendering was beautiful, but operation wasn't - with jerky scrolling and 'freezing' when busy. The worst part is that Netsurf insists on completely rendering the entire page before you can interact with it, which makes it effectively
much slower than IBrowse.